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Pomegra Startups
Funding rounds, valuations, acquisitions, and IPOs - daily coverage of the companies shaping the private markets
ASIO (Israel) raises $15M from Protego Ventures and Aliya Capital Partners to scale its GPS-independent tactical navigation, situational awareness, and command-and-control platforms globally, landing a component supply partnership with Anduril for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Exascale Labs (US) closes its SPAC business combination with D. Boral ARC Acquisition I Corp. and starts trading on Nasdaq today under ticker "XLAB," as an AI GPU-as-a-Service infrastructure provider with a ~$300M qualified customer pipeline.
BOOKR Kids (Hungary) closes a €6.1M Series A led by 3TS Capital Partners to expand its AI-powered digital literacy and reading platform, already serving 600,000 students across 30+ countries while EBITDA-positive.
ColibriTD (France) secures €4M seed led by Earlybird Venture Capital to commercialize its Hybrid Differential Equation Solver, a quantum-powered multiphysics simulation platform for aerospace, nuclear, and semiconductor industries.
Muon Space (US) closes a $250M Series C at a $1.5B valuation backed by Eclipse Capital, Google, and Salesforce Ventures to scale satellite constellation production to 500 satellites per year.
Wispr AI (US) raises $280M Series B at a $2B valuation led by Menlo Ventures for its AI dictation platform Flow and proprietary speech model Canto, which cuts word error rates to 5–10%.
Agentrys (US) closes a $24.5M seed round to build AI agents that autonomously take semiconductor chips from specifications to sign-off-clean GDS layout without human engineers.
Kazimi (Germany) raises an oversubscribed €2.2M pre-seed led by Market One Capital to help mobile app developers detect bots and protect first-party data, as bot traffic is projected to surpass human internet traffic for the first time in 2026.
Legato (US) exits stealth with $12M from Neotribe Ventures to launch the world's first AI hearing glasses, embedding hearing-assistance tech into eyewear arms at a fraction of traditional hearing-aid prices — founded by the creator of Bose Frames.
Generalist (US) — ex-DeepMind founders Pete Florence and Andy Zeng — close a $200M extension at a $3B valuation led by 8VC for their foundation model that lets a single AI system control different robot bodies without hand-coded task programming.
Emerald AI (US) closes an oversubscribed $150M Series A at a $1.05B valuation co-led by Energize Capital and DCVC — with Nvidia, Siemens, and GE Vernova joining — to build AI data centers that dynamically throttle their grid power draw to stabilize the electrical grid.
Instinct (US) raises $350M at a $2.5B valuation led by Index Ventures and Benchmark for its invite-only AI personal agent, whose valuation rocketed from $100M to $2.5B in a matter of weeks under a 23-year-old founder.
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